The best end-of-the-world movies always take place in New York

I absolutely love disaster movies. I was introduced to my first zombie movie as a tween – Brain dead with Peter Jacksonif you’re wondering – and have since actively sought out any monster and apocalyptic doomsday movies.

The latest doomsday movie set in New York looks like it’s going to be a rowdy one. It is a prequel to A quiet place series, called A Quiet Place: Day One. He dreamed it John Krasinski and brought to life with the help of actors Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn. The finer details of the plot are under wraps, but it takes us back to the first day of the alien invasion.

The trailer shows Nyong’o’s character, Sam, strolling the streets of New York with her cute cat when everything changes. We finally get to see what happens when aliens with supersonic hearing invade and the world flees quiet. Sam is seen teaming up with Quinn’s character Eric to try and escape the dangerous city.

I firmly believe that the best disaster movies are always set in New York because it is one of the most iconic skylines in the world. He acts as a supporting character and helps add substance and depth to any story.

King Kong’s tragic death at the top of the Empire State Building is etched in pop culture history and seeing the island of Manhattan completely frozen The day after tomorrow it was wild. New York is also an important city for the US, so if aliens, monsters or some freak weather accident hits, you know the whole country is in trouble.

Joseph Quinn, Lupita Nyong’o and Schnitzel the Cat. (Image: Paramount Pictures Australia)

While the former A quiet place The films have been shot in rural upstate New York and smaller towns, this is the first in the franchise to tackle a more familiar location.

I think it’s a genius idea to shoot the movie in New York, because it’s very similar 28 days later Made history with an eerily quiet London, it will be a huge contrast to see a normally bustling New York completely shut down.

So how will the City That Never Sleeps deal with being infiltrated by aliens with sonic hearing, ready to pounce on anything that makes the slightest peep?

“This idea of ​​a quiet New York is one that will capture many,” Nyong’o said Entertainment Weekly earlier this year.

He added: “It’s impossible to imagine… When you live there, you block out all sound quite naturally. You just forget to listen to the sound. I realized how hard it would be to survive in a world that required you to be silent in that particular city.”

A Quiet Place: The first day looks frighteningly good. (Image: Paramount Pictures Australia)

How is it A Quiet Place: Day One different from the previous one A quiet place movies;

Nyong’o believes that the tone of this film is completely different from the other one A quiet place films because of Krasinski’s vision and the new location.

“What [Krasinski] what was conveyed to me is that he was interested in doing something new with the franchise he created, and the universe he created… but also with the horror genre [and] finding new ways to get into that genre and expand it,” he said ET.

“I think this film does that. It’s a new tone… it’s different, it’s bigger and it’s a wilder ride… because we’re in New York!”

While previous films in the franchise focused on family and survival, Quinn believes A Quiet Place: Day One it’s an “escape movie” not a “survival story.”

“The script is obviously set in the world we know, but it’s very much a film about these two characters who are lost and trying to negotiate their fate,” he said. Entertainment Weekly.

“There are also some great other characters … but the biggest part of it is Eric and Sam in their mutual acceptance of this bleaker, quieter, new reality,” he said.

I can’t wait to be on the edge of my seat for once A Quiet Place: Day One hits theaters exclusively June 27. Tickets are sold in advance now.

Featured Image: Paramount Pictures Australia